Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
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* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
korrespondent.net
The ''Korrespondent.net'' (russian: Корреспондент.net; uk, Кореспондент.net; literally: ''Correspondent'') is an online newspaper in Ukraine launched in 2000. It is a sister project to the '' Korrespondent'' printed weekl ...
, (20 March 2015) It was known for its critical coverage of the
Ukrainian government
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...
, particularly of President
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...
.
In late April 2013 the channel changed ownership in a disputed
takeover
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. In early May 2013 the new management stated that they wanted to transform TVi into a mainstream TV channel (to be completed by September 2013). In March 2015 TVi stopped broadcasting because it had drained its financial resources. In March 2016 its broadcast licence was revoked.
History
TVi launched on 17 March 2008, and was set up by two exiled
Russia
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n businessmenn:
Vladimir Gusinsky
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and
Konstantin Kagalovsky
Konstantin Grigoryevich Kagalovsky (russian: Константин Григорьевич Кагаловский; born 13 October 1957) is a Russian businessman. He is the former vice-president of the oil company Yukos and a key Yukos shareholder ...
. They split due to a business dispute but Kagalovsky continued to fund TVi.
According to Ukrainian
media watchdog
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Communication
* Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data
** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass el ...
''Telekrytyka'' TVi and 5 Kanal were the only remaining TV channels in mid-May 2010 with independent and fair TV news coverage.
The President of TVi was
Vitaly Portnikov
Vitaly Portnikov ( uk, Віталій Едуардович Портников, Vitalii Eduardovych Portnykov; born 1967) is a Ukrainian editor and journalist.
Biography
Portnikov was born in 1967 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (modern-da ...
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
History
American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...
(November 12, 2010)
(Former) Chairman of the Editorial Board
Mykola Knyazhytsky
TVi ( uk, ТВі) was a Ukrainian TV channel that began broadcasting in 2008; it was widely seen as Ukraine's only independent TV channel.Batkivshchyna
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(11 November 2012)
April 2013 ownership dispute
Oleksandr Altman
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
was officially registered on 24 April 2013 as the channel's owner but according to
Konstantin Kagalovsky
Konstantin Grigoryevich Kagalovsky (russian: Константин Григорьевич Кагаловский; born 13 October 1957) is a Russian businessman. He is the former vice-president of the oil company Yukos and a key Yukos shareholder ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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GlobalPost
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Reuters
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The agency was estab ...
(25 April 2013) The staff of TVi then went on strike to protest the change of ownership that they fear will undermine their ability to air news critical of
President
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*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...
. According to press reports Altman, a Ukrainian-born U.S. businessman, had in the past worked as an adviser to
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in the Second Azarov GovernmentEduard Stavytsky. (in April 2013) Altman stated his priority was to save the television channel as an objective source of information in Ukraine.
31 journalists resigned from TVi on 29 April 2013, they believed as TVi employees they could not anymore "guarantee our audience to provide objective and unbiased information". They (including
Mustafa Nayem
Mustafa Masi Nayyem ( uk, Мустафа Найєм, ps, مصطفی نعیم) is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics, and public figure who was influential in sparking the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Formerly ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(29 April 2013) This "web project" eventually became
Hromadske.TV
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Novyi Kanal
Novyi Kanal (Ukrainian: Новий Канал) is a Ukrainian television channel. The channel is a part of the Starlight Media broadcasting group, created by Viktor Pinchuk.
History
The channel was launched on July 15, 1998. At first, it was ...
(and to a lesser intend
Inter
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* FC Inter Turku, a Finnish club
* FK Inter Bratislava, a form ...
and
1+1
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Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
Reception of TVi was available throughout the whole country of Ukraine. TVi was available on more than 90% of cable networks in Ukraine. Having a lot of partner agreements with regional companies TVi was available Free To Air in
Kharkiv
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,
Zaporizhia
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,
Kryvyi Rih
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,
Mykolaiv
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,
Simferopol
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,
Sloviansk
Sloviansk ( uk, Слов'янськ, Sloviansk ; russian: Славянск, Slavyansk or ; prior to 1784 – Tor) is a city in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Slovyansk urban commun ...
,
Kramatorsk
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, and
Melitopol
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. TVi was not granted a digital license in the summer of 2011; meaning that TVi would be shown through existing cable and satellite networks have access to about 45% of Ukraine’s population (while the selected channels will have more than 90 percent nationwide coverage) from the autumn of 2011.Oligarchs strengthen grip over TV
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
History
American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...
(August 19, 2011) TVi claimed that the reason it was denied a digital license is because of its critical approach to
Ukrainian President
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Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...
.
Controversy
In June 2010 a video was filmed of a vehicle parked outside the TV station monitoring its activities. When the three occupants of the vehicle were asked what they were doing, they hid their faces and refused to answer questions. They then drove off, driving through a red light. TVi general director Mykola Kniazhytsky accused the SBU, Ukraine's main security agency, of carrying out this surveillance.
Reporters Without Borders
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has condemned this as harassment.
In April 2012, TVi accused government officials of trying to disrupt and shut down the station. This was in response to tax officials allegedly probing its businesses relationships with entrepreneurs who fund the station. On April 25, 2012, tax officials delivered letters requesting contractual and other documents at the residences of at least three entrepreneurs that relate to their business dealings with TVi. Director Kniazhytsky accused the tax officials of 'bullying', and 'behaving like thugs'. In August 2012 these charges were dropped. Assessed at that time, one report noted relative to the station's independence that it has an editorial board that includes Poland's
Adam Michnik
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Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponen ...
and, " ucially, says ... Kniazhytsky, TVi's owner has no other business interests in Ukraine."
TVi Europe
On November 22, 2011, TVi Europe was launched, and it was the first
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
and
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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TV channel broadcast via satellite. The channel was broadcast in Ukraine and other European countries, and its billionaire owner
Konstantin Kagalovsky
Konstantin Grigoryevich Kagalovsky (russian: Константин Григорьевич Кагаловский; born 13 October 1957) is a Russian businessman. He is the former vice-president of the oil company Yukos and a key Yukos shareholder ...
Every day TVi presented two 1-hour slots of the new production documentaries from National Geographic, AETN, Discovery. TVi produces 10 hours per week of own production that correlites to nationalwide Ukrainian channels:
Today
''Today'' ( uk, Сьогодні) was a news service programme that came on the screen on week days at 8:30PM and 11:30PM.
The Truth
''The Truth'' ( uk, Правда) was a daily talk-show with famous people about events of the day. The anchors were Ukrainian’s famous journalists
Roman Skrypin
Román Skrýpin (born 27 May 1973) is a Ukrainian media manager, journalist, television host, a chief of the Ukrainian independent media union.
Biography
He was born on 27 May 1973 in Poltava, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He is married and ...
and
Vitaly Portnikov
Vitaly Portnikov ( uk, Віталій Едуардович Портников, Vitalii Eduardovych Portnykov; born 1967) is a Ukrainian editor and journalist.
Biography
Portnikov was born in 1967 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (modern-da ...
. The program was on-air on week days at 11PM.
112 Emergency
''112 Emergency'' ( uk, Оперативна служба 112) was a weekly show about accidents and crimes happening in Ukraine. The show came on screens on Saturdays at 8:30PM.
Exclamation mark
''Exclamation mark'' ( uk, Знак оклику) was a weekly journalistic investigation program about the most important incidents of the week. The anchor of the program was the famous journalist
Artem Shevchenko
Artem Valeriyovych Shevchenko ( uk, Артем Валерійович Шевченко) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian TV journalist and Managing director, manager, and is also the CEO of TVi (channel), TVi channel.
Biography
Early years and educati ...
. The show came on screens on Mondays at 9PM.
Black and white
''Black and white'' ( uk, Чорне та біле) was a weekly political talk show with a famous Ukrainian politician.
Taste of Europe
''Taste of Europe'' ( uk, Смак Європи) was a weekly political talk and
cooking show
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with
Paweł Kowal
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, a
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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politician and
Member of the European Parliament
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. He talked with different famous
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
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* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
people about
democracy
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,
European values
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, Ukraine's relations with
Poland
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and integration into the
European Union
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and
NATO
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. The program came on screens on Saturdays at 11AM.
See also
*
List of Ukrainian language television channels
Television has a long history in Ukraine, where regular television broadcasting started during the Soviet years in 1951. However the first ever TV broadcast took place on 1 February 1939 in Kyiv. Since then TV broadcasting has expanded, particula ...